[RAW] Ched Evans Rape Trial: CCTV Of Girl Walking Into Hotel

Ched Evans Rape Trial: CCTV Of Girl Walking Into Hotel Predatory soccer stars, a drunken girl and a very seedy night at the Premier Inn: RICHARD PENDLEBURY revisits the disturbing events that led to the rape trial of Ched Evans Predatory soccer stars, a drunken girl and a very seedy night at the Premier Inn: RICHARD PENDLEBURY revisits the disturbing events that led to the rape trial of Ched Evans The still-disputed but undeniably grubby events which led to the jailing of footballer Ched Evans took place in the early hours of the 2011 May bank holiday, in a budget hotel room in North Wales. At the time, Evans was a 22-year-old Welsh international striker with Sheffield United. Great things had been predicted of him when he was playing in the youth ranks at Manchester City. But the expected breakthrough into the first team hadn’t happened, and now he was successfully rebuilding his career at the League One side.Evans, who had a steady girlfriend of two years’ standing, had been on a Sunday night out in his home town of Rhyl with another former City junior called Clayton McDonald. Evans had booked a room for McDonald at the Premier Inn in the nearby village of Rhuddlan.At the footballers’ subsequent trial for rape, the prosecution would allege that the hotel reservation was made for the sole purpose of ‘procuring a girl or girls’ with whom the two men could have sex. That girl proved to be a 19-year-old waitress. She had finished work late that evening and had drunk two large glasses of red wine with colleagues before going home. She then showered and went out again at 1.30am to meet friends at the resort’s seafront nightclub, Zu Bar. Caernarfon Crown Court would hear that she arrived at Zu Bar at 2am. Within an hour she had drunk a further four double vodkas and a shot of sambuca. When she left the club at around 3am and made her way to the nearby Godfather fast food shop, arriving ten minutes later, the girl could hardly stand. In her confusion, she left her handbag in the takeaway and staggered outside with a pizza. It was now around 3.30am. CCTV footage showed the teenager falling into the wall of a building, losing her balance and clumsily attempting to get into the back of a taxi she had flagged down. By then, her clothing was already ‘disarranged, her bra visible’, the driver recalled. It was at this point that she was approached by the 6ft6in McDonald who, along with Evans and others, had also been in Zu Bar, where they had allegedly tried to persuade at least one young woman to come back to the hotel room. Now, the ‘suitable girl’ the prosecution would later allege that he and Evans had been looking for had literally ‘stumbled across their path’. For his part McDonald, then 22, said that the woman had asked him where he was going. He said he told her he was on his way to his hotel room and she replied: ‘I’m coming with you.’ They both got into the taxi, and McDonald paid the fare to the Premier Inn, three miles away. During the journey he sent a text to Evans saying he had ‘got a bird’. At 4.15am, McDonald and the teenager arrived at the hotel. Evans had booked and paid for Room 14, but it was under McDonald’s name